Web services and API's
we looked at the future of software as a service where the programme is not stored locally on a hard drive it is help on the net and the user accesses it via a web portal, only paying for what they use thus reducing the cost as you wouldn't need to buy a whole suite.
the possibilities of cloud computing, where all the users data is stored n the net with very little held on hard drives and thus leaves the home computer mearly as a window to the Internet to access all your files.
web services, we looked at the use of XML, the difference between a web page and a web service, how XML is not a language despite its name but is in fact a set of conventions to create a language that is similar to HTML, how XML documents consist of elements how each element contains other elements or text and can also have attributes and a document will have one root element.
API's hide the internal complexity of web services and allows programmers to with ease build on exisiting functionality. almost all programming is done via api's.
finally we looked at mashups which uses API's and web services to create new innovative systems, how no programming experience is needed how javascript can be used to manipulate web services and API's how many services publish code that can be used in HTML.
an example of my mash up can be found here
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